Bear Family
Nobody remasters Golden Age country music better than Germany’s Bear Family Records. The admirable label doesn’t simply reissue albums, it also compiles the best single- and multi-artist collections out there.
429 Records
In 1994 the Subdudes were one of the brightest spots on “adult album alternative” radio. They and the Iguanas, also from New Orleans, were among the cream of that era’s Americana crop. The Subdudes’ “Annunciation” and the Iguanas’ “Nuevo Boogaloo” peaked that year at Nos. 19 and 34, respectively, on Billboard’s Heatseekers album chart.
Silver Arrow
If Warners Bros. Records were still around — that is, the late-1960s/early ’70s version that nurtured artists and allowed them to experiment and evolve unfettered by corporate formulas and quotas — the Black Crowes no doubt would be on it.
Fortunate Son/Verve Forecast
On “Rides Again,” John Fogerty revisits the concept of his 1973 country covers LP, “The Blue Ridge Rangers” — this time minus the one-man band and with his name attached.
True North
Linden is serious about outside-the-mainstream blues. Maybe it comes from his association with singer/harmonicat Paul Reddick, a fellow Canadian who often enlists Linden for production and slide-guitar duties and who has an even stronger penchant for the offbeat.
